A medical condition causing chest pain or pressure, usually because the heart isn't getting enough blood flow.
From Latin 'angina' meaning 'a strangling or suffocation,' related to 'angere' (to strangle). The medical term emerged in the 1700s to describe the choking sensation patients experience.
The Latin root 'angere' (to strangle) also gives us 'angry,' 'anguish,' and 'anxiety'—showing how many English emotion words come from the physical feeling of being squeezed or strangled!
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